Christina M. Patterson, MD

  • Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Child Neurology and the Clinical and Translational Science Institute
  • Director, Epilepsy and EEG Services, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
  • Director, Epilepsy Monitoring Unit, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
  • Associate Director, Children’s Neuroscience Institute
  • Co-Director, University of Pittsburgh Comprehensive Epilepsy Center (UPCEC)
  • Medical Director, Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Program

Christina M. Patterson, MD is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology  in Neurology with Special Qualification in Child Neurology, Clinical Neurophysiology and Epilepsy. She practices at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and is affiliated with UPMC Williamsport, UPMC Magee-Women’s Hospital, UPMC Central, UPMC Jameson, UPMC Western Maryland, and UPMC Altoona. She completed her Clinical Neurophysiology fellowship and Child Neurology Residency training at UPMC. 

 

Professional and Scientific Society Memberships

  • American Academy of Neurology, 07/07-Present
  • Child Neurology Society, 07/07-Present
  • American Epilepsy Society, 07/11-Present
  • ​​Pennsylvania Medical Society, 05/18-2/2020
  • ​Allegheny County Medical Society, 05/18-2/2020

Board Certifications

  • Neurology with Special Qualifications in Child Neurology
  • Clinical Neurophysiology
  • Epilepsy

Administration and Leadership

Director, APP Development and Utilization, Division of Child Neurology, 03/2014-present
Director, Graduate Medical Education Milestones Committee, 12/2015-present
Director, Epilepsy Monitoring Unit, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, 02/2016-present
Medical Director, Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Program, UPMC Children’s Hospital, 02/2016-present
Director, Epilepsy Services, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, 03/2017-present
Participant, Marshall W. Webster Physician Leadership Program, Joseph M. Katz School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, 9/2018-12/2018
UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Physician Compensation Committee, 7/2018-present
University of Pittsburgh Physicians Board of Directors, Elected Representative for UPMC Children’s Hospital, 1/2019-12/2020
UPMC GME Epilepsy Fellowship Assistant Program Director, Pediatric Track, 7/2019-present

Education & Training

  • University of Pittsburgh, BS. Neuroscience and Psychology
  • American University of the Caribbean, MD. Medicine
  • Western Reserve Care System, Internship and Residency. Pediatrics
  • UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Residency. Child Neurology
  • UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Fellowship. Clinical Neurophysiology

Selected Publications

Liu T, Nestor A, Vida MD, Pyles JA, Patterson C, Yang Y, Fan NY, Freud E, Behrmann M. Successful Reorganization of Category-Selective Visual Cortex following Occipito-temporal Lobectomy in Childhood. Cell Rep. 2018 Jul31/24(5):1113-1122. PMID 30067969

Liu T, Freud, E, Patterson C, Behrmann M. Perceptual function, and category-selective neural organization in children with resections of visual cortex. The Journal of Neuroscience. 2019 Aug7;39(32:6299-6314. PMID 31167940

Maallo AM, Freud E, Liu TT, Patterson C, Behrmann M. Effects of unilateral cortical resection of the visual cortex on bilateral human white matter. Neuro Image 2020 Feb 15;207:116345. PMID 31712165

Maallo AM, Granovetter MC, Freud E, Kastner S, Pinsk MA, Patterson C, Behrmann M. Large-scale re-sculpting of cortical circuits in children after surgical resection. Scientific Reports 10,21589 (2020). PMID 33299002

Edmonds B, Welch W, Sogawa Y, Mountz J, Bagic A, Patterson C. The role of Magnetoencephalography and Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography in evaluation of children with Drug-Resistant Epilepsy. J Child Neurol. 2021 Mar 5. PMID 33663250. 

Kirkpatrick L, Collins A, Patterson C, Harrison E, Miller E, Sogawa Y, Van Cott AC, Kazmerski TM. Pediatric neurologists’ perspectives on sexual and reproductive healthcare for adolescent and young adult women with epilepsy and intellectual disability. J Child Neurol. 2021 Oct 17. PMID 34657501.

Munjal N, Bergman I, Scheuer M, Genovese C, Simon D, Patterson C. Quantitative EEG predicting acute neurological deterioration in the pediatric ICU: a case series. J Child Neurol. 2021 Nov 24. PMID 34816755.

Ahmad Z, Behrmann M, Patterson C, Freud E. Unilateral resection of both cortical visual pathways in pediatric patients alters action but not perception. Neuropsyhologia Vol 168. 2022 Apr 15. PMID 35182580.

Ayzenberg, V., Granovetter, M.C., Robert, S., Patterson, C., & Behrmann, M.. (2023, Aug). Differential functional reorganization of ventral and dorsal visual pathways following childhood hemispherectomy. bioRxiv. Pub Status: Pre-Print. 

Granovetter, M.C., Patterson, C., & Behrmann, M.. (2023, Apr). Functional MRI with paediatric epilepsy surgery: A tool for understanding childhood brain plasticity. Brain Communications. Pub Status: Under Review. 

Simmons, C., Granovetter, M.C., Robert, S., Liu, T.T., Patterson, C., & Behrmann, M.. (2023, Aug). Holistic processing and face expertise after pediatric resection of occipitotemporal cortex. Neuropsychologia. Pub Status: Under Review.

Mountz J, Patterson C, Tamber M. Pediatric Epilepsy: Neurology, Functional Imaging, and Neurosurgery. Seminars in Nuclear Medicine. 2017 Mar;47(2):170-187. PMID 28237005.

 

 

Academic and Research Interests

Curriculum Development/Graduate Medical Education

Physician Assistant Child Neurology Orientation Program and Mentoring, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, 2014-present
Neurodiagnostic Technologist Training Program, ABRET Accredited, 2015-present  
Epilepsy Center RN and EEG Technologist Continuing Education Program for Epilepsy Care, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, 2015-present  

                                   

                                   

Research Grants

2R01EY027018-05 (National Eye Institute/ NIH): Reorganization of visual function in patients with posterior cortical resection: Selectivity and plasticity
1R41Hd109131-01 (Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development/ NIH): New Electrodes for Enabling Inclusive EEG Monitoring in Black Populations